Bristol Palin and her husband Dakota Meyer broke the news to Entertainment Tonight Friday. The baby will be the couple’s second child; their daughter was born in December 2015. Tripp Palin, her son with ex-fiancé Levi Johnson, is now 7.

On the plus side, we’re 8 years beyond Andrew Sullivan’s public demand that Sarah Palin provide the American public documentation — “the amniocentesis results with Sarah Palin’s name on them, for example” — to “verify” her last pregnancy. That doesn’t mean a new Palin child doesn’t still have a triggering effect, though.

@thehill With all the money her mother made from speaking, you'd think she could afford to give Bristol a nickel to hold between her knees.

All of that was covered above, but it’s true, those “Entertainment Tonight” reports can be difficult to follow sometimes. Most news outlets took a pass on the item, but here’s a quick word from the Daily Beast’s Olivia Nuzzi.